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ESA - 9. Absence or loss of control bowel and or bladder
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1 year 3 months ago #282616 by headabovethewater
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do you think the following will be sufficient? Any advice greatly received- also do you advise highlighting relevant bits in hospital letters or is that distracting?
Due to multiple Gynaecology surgery i have been left with adhesions (29/10/18ltr) and i have IBS, Fibromyalgia and CFS. I experience at least once a week fecal incontinence (physio letter 25/02/20) This is sudden onset, loss of control. It is always preceded by much left sided pain and can happen as I stand or when walking. It is highly embarrassing and has a big impact on the quality of my life. I have enclosed Dr .. letters as he notes these longstanding issues and the toll on my mental health, also the risk that further surgery has no guarantee of improvement (19/2/20)
My daughter is my carer and on these days when I am in acute pain she helps me, provides clean clothes and deals with the washing which adds to the embarrassment. She also helps with medicine which at times is severe enough to require morphine (dr. Ltr 3/3/20) again this letter shows this is a chronic condition and further surgery will only result in more adhesions. I am left thoroughly exhausted and in pain weekly with these humiliating. I also suffer urinary incontinence and urology issues. Fibrogel and buscopen had no improvement I have found mebevine to have a slight improvement on stomach spasms but no change to incontinence. Since having a complete bowel loss in the car after a hospital appointment I make sure not to eat much in the 24 hours before an appointment. Neurology letter dated 14/6/22 confirms paragraph 2 I have bladder and bowel accidents. Bham QE MRI tethering sigmoid colon Adhesions Rectum/Bladder dome
What do you think? Thank you if you stayed with it, apologies for the essay.
do you think the following will be sufficient? Any advice greatly received- also do you advise highlighting relevant bits in hospital letters or is that distracting?
Due to multiple Gynaecology surgery i have been left with adhesions (29/10/18ltr) and i have IBS, Fibromyalgia and CFS. I experience at least once a week fecal incontinence (physio letter 25/02/20) This is sudden onset, loss of control. It is always preceded by much left sided pain and can happen as I stand or when walking. It is highly embarrassing and has a big impact on the quality of my life. I have enclosed Dr .. letters as he notes these longstanding issues and the toll on my mental health, also the risk that further surgery has no guarantee of improvement (19/2/20)
My daughter is my carer and on these days when I am in acute pain she helps me, provides clean clothes and deals with the washing which adds to the embarrassment. She also helps with medicine which at times is severe enough to require morphine (dr. Ltr 3/3/20) again this letter shows this is a chronic condition and further surgery will only result in more adhesions. I am left thoroughly exhausted and in pain weekly with these humiliating. I also suffer urinary incontinence and urology issues. Fibrogel and buscopen had no improvement I have found mebevine to have a slight improvement on stomach spasms but no change to incontinence. Since having a complete bowel loss in the car after a hospital appointment I make sure not to eat much in the 24 hours before an appointment. Neurology letter dated 14/6/22 confirms paragraph 2 I have bladder and bowel accidents. Bham QE MRI tethering sigmoid colon Adhesions Rectum/Bladder dome
What do you think? Thank you if you stayed with it, apologies for the essay.
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1 year 3 months ago #282635 by Gary
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Replied by Gary on topic ESA - 9. Absence or loss of control bowel and or bladder
Hi headabovethewater
I do sympathise with you and thank you for sharing as it could not be easy.
In answer to your question about highlighting, when you send your forms in to DWP they will be scanned on to their system so highlights do not rearly work, if you use a yellow highlight when you scan the document it will not show up, if you highlight in green, this can sometime hide what you have highlighted, under score what you want to highlight may be a better option.
In regards to what you have written, 10 out of 10
My only observation, do you wear incontinence pads, if you do, do they leak?
Gary
I do sympathise with you and thank you for sharing as it could not be easy.
In answer to your question about highlighting, when you send your forms in to DWP they will be scanned on to their system so highlights do not rearly work, if you use a yellow highlight when you scan the document it will not show up, if you highlight in green, this can sometime hide what you have highlighted, under score what you want to highlight may be a better option.
In regards to what you have written, 10 out of 10
My only observation, do you wear incontinence pads, if you do, do they leak?
Gary
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1 year 3 months ago #282639 by headabovethewater
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Thank you so much, I hadn't thought that the highlight could hide text!
I forgot to add even more embarrassing I suffer a skin disorder that makes pads very uncomfortable though I have to resort to them if out and period underwear to help with leaking - along with emollients to ease pain.
I will add that.
Appreciate this site so much - oh dear how humiliating to have to explain this to a stranger in the hope of £100ish a week, I used to have a career and busy life :-/
I forgot to add even more embarrassing I suffer a skin disorder that makes pads very uncomfortable though I have to resort to them if out and period underwear to help with leaking - along with emollients to ease pain.
I will add that.
Appreciate this site so much - oh dear how humiliating to have to explain this to a stranger in the hope of £100ish a week, I used to have a career and busy life :-/
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